Lincoln in the bardo (defekt) - george saunders

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017 The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body. From this seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of realism, entering a thrilling, supernatural domain both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself trapped in a transitional realm - called, in Tibetan tradition, the bardo - and as ghosts mingle, squabble, gripe and commiserate, and stony tendrils creep towards the boy, a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul. Unfolding over a single night, Lincoln in the Bardo is written with George Saunders' inimitable humour, pathos and grace. Here he invents an exhilarating new form, and is confirmed as one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Deploying a theatrical, kaleidoscopic panoply of voices - living and dead, historical and fictional - Lincoln in the Bardo poses a timeless question: how do we live and love when we know that everything we hold dear must end? (knihydobrovsky.cz)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEThe long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth," the president says at the time. "God has called him home." Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy's body. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state--called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo--a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul. Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction's ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end? Praise for Lincoln in the Bardo "A luminous feat of generosity and humanism."--Colson Whitehead, The New York Times Book Review "A masterpiece."--Zadie Smith "Ingenious . . . Saunders--well on his way toward becoming a twenty-first-century Twain--crafts an American patchwork of love and loss, giving shape to our foundational sorrows."--Vogue "Saunders is the most humane American writer working today."--Harper's Magazine (knihydobrovsky.cz)

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017 The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body. From this seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of realism, entering a thrilling, supernatural domain both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself trapped in a transitional realm - called, in Tibetan tradition, the bardo - and as ghosts mingle, squabble, gripe and commiserate, and stony tendrils creep towards the boy, a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul. Unfolding over a single night, Lincoln in the Bardo is written with George Saunders' inimitable humour, pathos and grace. Here he invents an exhilarating new form, and is confirmed as one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Deploying a theatrical, kaleidoscopic panoply of voices - living and dead, historical and fictional - Lincoln in the Bardo poses a timeless question: how do we live and love when we know that everything we hold dear must end? (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Kniha - autor George Saunders, 342 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War (alza.cz)

První román známého amerického autora povídek, esejů, novel a knih pro děti George Saunderse nazvaný Lincoln v bardu získal v roce 2017 prestižní Man Bookerovu cenu. Kniha se zakládá na skutečné události: v únoru 1862 zemřel na tyfus jedenáctiletý Willie, syn amerického prezidenta Abrahama Lincolna, a podle různých dobových zpráv otec v noci po pohřbu navštívil synovu hrobku a setrval s mrtvým synem jistou dobu o samotě. Román se odehrává té noci na hřbitově zabydleném duchy nedávno zesnulých i dávno mrtvých a příběh vyprávějí stovky hlasů starých i mladých, hlasy mužů, žen i dětí, bílých i černých. S chlapcem Williem se setkáváme v bardu, což je termín z tibetského buddhismu označující stav mezi smrtí a novým zrozením, a sledujeme další „bytosti“ podobně uvízlé na hřbitově, které nechtějí akceptovat svou smrt.Bezmála celý román je napsaný v dialogu, ale zahrnuje také útržky histrických textů, biografií, dopisů a jiných dobových dokumentů, z nichž některé si protiřečí a další vytvořil autor sám. Saundersův experimentální román je strhující zkoumání smrti, zármutku a lásky, vyprávěné naprosto jedinečným, téměř básnickým způsobem. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the BardoMacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of DecemberThe 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose - wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned - Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.'Love Letter' is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the not-too-distant future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals, ourselves, and each other. 'Ghoul' is set in a Hell-themed section of an underground amusement park in Colorado, and follows the exploits of a lonely, morally complex character named Brian, who comes to question everything he takes for granted about his 'reality.' In 'Mother's Day', two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. And in 'Elliott Spencer', our eighty-nine-year-old protagonist finds himself brainwashed - his memory 'scraped' - a victim of a scheme in which poor, vulnerable people are reprogrammed and deployed as political protesters.Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention as Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo MacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of December The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose - wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned - Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality. 'Love Letter' is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the not-too-distant future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals, ourselves, and each other.'Ghoul' is set in a Hell-themed section of an underground amusement park in Colorado, and follows the exploits of a lonely, morally complex character named Brian, who comes to question everything he takes for granted about his 'reality.' In 'Mother s Day', two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. And in 'Elliott Spencer', our eighty-nine-year-old protagonist finds himself brainwashed - his memory 'scraped' - a victim of a scheme in which poor, vulnerable people are reprogrammed and deployed as political protesters. Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention as Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

“One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character. . . . An exquisite work from a writer whose reach is galactic.”—Oprah Daily Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with his first collection of short stories since the New York Times bestseller Tenth of December.The “best short-story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.“Love Letter” is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the (not too distant, all too believable) future, that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals, ourselves, and one another. “Ghoul” is set in a Hell-themed section of an underground amusement park in Colorado and follows the exploits of a lonely, morally complex character named Brian, who comes to question everything he takes for granted about his reality. In “Mother’s Day,” two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. In “Elliott Spencer,” our eighty-nine-year-old protagonist finds himself brainwashed, his memory “scraped”—a victim of a scheme in which poor, vulnerable people are reprogrammed and deployed as political protesters. And “My House”—in a mere seven pages—comes to terms with the haunting nature of unfulfilled dreams and the inevitability of decay.Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

DALŠÍ DÍL DYSTOPIE, V NÍŽ JE NUTNÉ SI PRÁVO NA ŽIVOT VYBOJOVAT | Dvojčata Ava a Mira mají za sebou strastiplnou cestu z texaského Dallasu do svobodné Kanady. K útěku je donutilo prozrazení mladší z nich, Miry, která svou pouhou existencí porušuje krutý zákon. Nemilosrdný texaský guvernér Roth dělá vše pro to, aby nyní už slavné uprchlice, které jsou symbolem znovuožívající vzpoury, dopadl a zlikvidoval.Ava s Mirou však zakrátko opouštějí relativní bezpečí Kanady, aby se Rothovi postavily. Získávají nové spojence: Owena, mladého a talentovaného programátora, a Zetku, která byla odmalička jako přespočetné dítě týraná v pracovních táborech.Tato čtveřice zamíří zpátky do Dallasu zúčtovat s Rothem, i když jejich zbraní jsou jen těžké osudy a naděje na svobodnou budoucnost.Neposlušnost znamená smrt. Ale je potřeba se vzbouřit, aby stálo za to žít. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

One of the most famous works of literature in the world, 1984 is a landmark of dystopian science fiction. It is an indictment of the communist dictatorship of Big Brother that controlled everything in 1984. The readers immerse themselves in the life of the honest, sensitive and thoughtful Winston Smith, who decides to defy the system, for which he pays a severe price. Written in 1948, Orwell predicted today's reality. Matyáš Namai studied graphic design at the High School of Advertising in Prague. He now works as a freelance artist and is mainly involved in illustrations, comics and occasional storyboards. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

A century before A GAME OF THRONES, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros... A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R.R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

This lavish visual history―featuring over 150 new, full-colour illustrations―is a stunning introduction to House Targaryen, the iconic family at the heart of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon. For hundreds of years, the Targaryens sat the Iron Throne of Westeros while their dragons ruled the skies. The story of the only family of dragonlords to survive Valyria’s Doom is a tale of twisty politics, alliances and betrayals, and acts both noble and craven. The Rise of the Dragon chronicles the creation and rise of Targaryen power in Westeros, covering the history first told in George R. R. Martin’s epic Fire & Blood, from Aegon Targaryen’s conquest of Westeros through to the infamous Dance of the Dragons―the bloody civil war that nearly undid Targaryen rule for good. Packed with all-new artwork, the Targaryens―and their dragons―come vividly to life in this deluxe reference book. Perfect for fans steeped in the lore of Westeros, as well as those who first meet the Targaryens in the HBO series House of the Dragon, The Rise of the Dragon provides a must-have overview for anyone looking to learn more about the most powerful family in Westeros. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

A work of horror genius from the Godfather of zombie film-making, George A. Romero, and celebrated writer Daniel Kraus . . . It begins with one body. A pair of medical examiners find themselves facing a dead man who won't stay dead. It spreads quickly. In a Midwestern trailer park, an African American teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family. On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic preaches the gospel of a new religion of death. At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting, not knowing if anyone is watching, while his undead colleagues try to devour him. In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come. Everywhere, people are targeted by both the living and the dead. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

'As we saw it first it was the wildest and most desolate of scenes. We were in an enormous amphitheatre, a vast circular plain, the floor of the giant crater. Its cliff-like wall closed us in on every side?'Thanks to the discovery of an anti-gravity metal, Cavorite, two Victorian Englishman decide to tackle the most prestigious goal - space travel. They construct a sphere that will ultimately take them to the moon. On landing, they encounter what seems like an utterly barren landscape but they soon find signs that the planet was once very much alive. Then they hear curious hammering sounds from beneath the surface, and come face to face with the Selenites, a race of insect-like aliens living in a rigidly organised hive society. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Thirty detachable vintage posters drawn from the Victoria and Albert Museum’s renowned archive take you back to the Golden Age of travel From the restorative retreat of a palm-lined beach to the brisk breeze of Bridlington, holidaying by the sea is hard to beat. For over a century, whether by boat, train, car or plane, we’ve flocked to the coast at home and abroad. These vintage advertisements help evoke the early 20th century’s Golden Age of travel. With an introduction by Gill Saunders, this book is packed with charm and style, and includes thirty detachable full-page posters to transport you back to the sun, sea and sand. Contents List Introduction by Gill Saunders • 30 detachable posters (knihydobrovsky.cz)

One of the all-time great animal stories. Kenneth Grahame's classic children's book, with exclusive illustrations from EH Shepard has delighted generations.The Wind in the Willows is one of the most famous and bestselling animal stories of all time. This exclusive 90th anniversary paperback edition celebrates E.H. Shepherd's classic illustrations that brought Mole, Ratty, Badger and Mr Toad to life 90 years ago and have captivated children and adults alike ever since.The Wild Wood seems a terrifying place to Mole, until one day he pokes his nose out of his burrow and finds it's full of friends. He meets brave Ratty, kind old Badger and the rascally Mr Toad, and together they go adventuring ... but the Wild Wood doesn't just contain friends, there are also the sinister weasels and stoats, and they capture Toad Hall when Mr Toad is in jail. How will he escape? And can the friends fight together to save Toad Hall?Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows is a classic animal adventure that charms and enthrals. This new paperback edition contains the original black and white illustrations by E H Shepard, the man who drew Winnie-the-Pooh. The perfect adventure for children aged 9 and above. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University.In these two compelling novels H.G. Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened.The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to discover that what appeared to be a falling star was, in fact, a metallic cylinder landing from Mars. Six million people begin to flee London in panic as tentacled invaders emerge and overpower the city. With their heat-ray, killing machines, black gas, and a taste for fresh human blood, is there anything that can be done to stop the Martians?In The War in the Air, naive but resourceful Bert Smallways is thrilled by speed and fascinated by the new flying machines. His curiosity sweeps him away by accident into a German plan to conquer America, beginning with the destruction of New York. The ease of movement in aerial warfare means that nothing and nobody is safe as Total War erupts, civilisation crumbles, and Bert's hopes of getting back to London to marry his love seem impossibly distant. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover the classic dystopian masterpiece beautifully reimagined by renowned street artist Shepard FaireyWinston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101. . .First published in 1949, 1984 is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

George Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; Dr Lydgate, whose pioneering medical methods, combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami invites readers back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet again why she is one of today's most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented novelists. Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyuko stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength to change her life and decides to do something about it. As the long overdue change occurs, however, painful episodes from Fuyuko's past surface and her behavior slips further and further beyond the pale. All the Lovers in the Night is acute and insightful, entertaining and engaging; it will make readers laugh, and it will make them cry, but it will also remind them, as only the best books do, that sometimes the pain is worth it. "In the skilled hands of Bett and Boyd, Kawakami's prose is instantly recognizable--immediate, incisive, and unfailingly honest."--Katie Kitamura, Entertainment Weekly(A Most Anticipated Book of 2022) (knihydobrovsky.cz)

eBook: Containing loosely autobiographical elements, ‘In the Modern Vein’ is a short story detailing the romantic pursuits of the poet, Aubrey Vair. The crux of the tale focuses on Vair’s brief, platonic affair with the enigmatic Miss Smith. Will Vair return to his wife or elope with his new love? Wells allows us to experience the turmoil Vair endures in touching and unexpected detail. Given the rumours of his numerous affairs in real-life, could this be the author is trying to lay old ghosts to rest? H.G. Wells (1866 – 1946) was a prolific writer and the author of more than 50 novels. Additionally, he wrote more than 60 short stories, alongside various scientific papers. Many of his most famous works have been adapted for film and television, including ‘The Time Machine,’ starring Guy Pearce, ‘War of the Worlds,’ starring Tom Cruise, and ‘The Invisible Man,’ starring Elizabeth Moss. Because of his various works exploring futuristic themes, Wells is regarded as one of the ‘Fathers of Science Fiction.’ (knihydobrovsky.cz)

IT WAS A CASE THAT GRIPPED THE NATION LUKE RYDER'S MURDER HAS NEVER BEEN SOLVED In October 2003, Luke Ryder was found dead in the garden of the family home in London, leaving behind a wealthy older widow and three stepchildren. Nobody saw anything. Now, secrets will be revealed - live on camera. Years later a group of experts re-examine the evidence on Infamous, a true-crime show - with shocking results. Does the team know more than they've been letting on? Or does the truth lie closer to home? Can you solve the case before they do? The truth will blow your mind. Over a million copies sold of Cara Hunter books across all formats (paperback, ebook and audio) as of 1st July 2023 MURDER IN THE FAMILY was a #7 Sunday Times bestseller for week ending 3rd September 2023 About the Author Cara Hunter is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling crime novels Close to Home, In the Dark, No Way Out, All the Rage, The Whole Truth and Hope to Die, all featuring DI Adam Fawley and his Oxford-based police team. Close to Home was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick, as was The Whole Truth, and was shortlisted for Crime Book of the Year in the British Book Awards 2019. No Way Out was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 100 best crime novels since 1945. Cara's novels have sold over a million copies worldwide, and the TV rights to the series have been acquired by the Fremantle group. She lives in Oxford. Murder in the Family is her first stand-alone crime novel. The Fawley series will also continue. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

2018 Most Anticipated Young Adult book that is part Wonder Woman, part Vikings―and all heart. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, god-decreed rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: train to fight and fight to survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield—her brother, fighting with the enemy—the brother she watched die five years ago. Eelyn loses her focus and is captured. Now, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan settling in the valley, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved Aska clan, which is rumored to have been decimated by the same horde. She is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother’s friend who tried to kill her the day she was captured. They must do the impossible: unite the clans to fight together, or risk being slaughtered one by one. Driven by a love for her clan and her growing love for Fiske, Eelyn must confront her own definition of loyalty and find a way to forgive her brother while daring to put her faith in the people she’s spent her life killing. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Caught up in an experiment gone wrong, Joseph Schwartz is transported forward in time from post-war Chicago to the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, despised by the other two hundred million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it as the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil - so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty.And Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two. Asimov's Galactic Empire novels are among the earliest stories by one of the twentieth century's greatest visionaries. Filled with ideas and wonders, they are classic adventures from science fiction's Golden Age. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The tree in the courtyard was a horse chestnut. Her leaves were green stars; her flowers foaming cones of white and pink. Seagulls flocked to her shade. She spread roots and reached skyward in peace. The tree watched a little girl, who played and laughed and wrote in a diary. When strangers invaded the city and warplanes roared overhead, the tree watched the girl peek out of the curtained window of the annex. It watched as she and her family were taken away—and when her father returned after the war, alone. The tree died the summer Anne Frank would have turned eighty-one, but its seeds and saplings have been planted around the world as a symbol of peace. Its story, and Anne’s story, are beautifully told and illustrated in this powerful picture book. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The untapped natural resources of Sweden's far north are sparking a gold rush, with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it's not the prospect of riches that brings Lisbeth Salander to the small town of Gasskas. Her niece's mother is the latest woman in the region to have vanished without trace.Two things soon become clear: Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager -- and she's being watched.Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is also heading north. He has seen better days.Millennium magazine is in its final print issue, and relations with his daughter are strained. Worse still, there are troubling rumours surrounding the man she's about to marry. When the truth behind the whispers explodes into violence, Salander emerges as Blomkvist's last hope.The new thriller from Swedish bestselling author Karin Smirnoff will submerge you in a world of conspiracy and betrayal, old enemies and new friends, snow-bound wilderness and corporate greed.Lisbeth Salander is BACK. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

V této kontroverzní knize George Haas a William Saunders, autoři knihy Cydonijský kodex, předkládají argumenty pro interpretaci terénních útvarů na Marsu jako geoglyfů - vědomě vytvořených formací - které jsou velmi podobné, ne-li identické, symbolům či piktogramům ze starobylých civilizací Země. Na základě přesných, nových grafických technologií a geomorfologických analýz Marťanský kodex zpochybňuje ortodoxní vědecký názor, že Země a Mars nikdy nesdíleli společnou kulturu - a předkládá nanejvýše přesvědčivé argumenty, že se mimozemšťané přesto mohli skutečně na Zemi objevit v dřívějších dobách. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

For fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, fairy tale and magic are weaved together in sparse language that belies a flooring emotional punch. Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami _______________________________ Would you share your deepest secrets to save a friend? In a tranquil neighbourhood of Tokyo, seven teenagers wake to find their bedroom mirrors are shining. At a single touch, they are pulled from their lonely lives to a wondrous castle filled with winding stairways, watchful portraits and twinkling chandeliers. In this new sanctuary, they are confronted with a set of clues leading to a hidden room where one of them will be granted a wish. But there's a catch: if they don't leave the castle by five o'clock, they will be punished. As time passes, a devastating truth emerges: only those brave enough to share their stories will be saved. Tender, playful, gripping, LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR is a mesmerizing tale about the importance of reaching out, confronting anxiety and embracing human connection. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

From New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, In the Lives of Puppets is a queer retelling of the Pinocchio tale, inviting you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees live three robots - fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, hidden and safe.The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled 'HAP', he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio - a past spent hunting humans.When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio's former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic's assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: can he accept love with strings attached?Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful standalone fantasy adventure from the author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Třetí díl cyklu Píseň ledu a ohně zastihuje přeživší hrdiny v překotných událostech. Název knihy Bouře mečů doslova a do písmene vystihuje vražedné tempo, v němž George R. R. Martin pokračuje ve svém vyprávění. Královská vybíjená pokračuje, a i když rod Starků nadále drží sever, nad Robbem se stahují mračna, a také jeho sourozence čeká nejedna těžká zkouška. Tyrion stále obtížněji manévruje mezi intrikami vlastní sestry, která větří příležitost rodu Lannisterů na ovládnutí Západozemí. Zdivočelí se odhodlají překročit Zeď a Jon Sníh učiní závažná rozhodnutí. A Daenerys? Krom krmení rostoucích draků musí posbírat armádu, jež jí pomůže znovu dobýt její dědictví – všech Sedm království. Epické vyprávění s desítkami jednajících postav se díky seriálu HBO stalo nejúspěšnější fantasy ságou od dob Pána prstenů. Na celém světě má miliony nadšených fanoušků, kteří netrpělivě čekají na každé pokračování. Píseň ledu a ohně vychází v novém překladu a úpravě. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Třetí díl cyklu Píseň ledu a ohně zastihuje přeživší hrdiny v překotných událostech. Název knihy Bouře mečů doslova a do písmene vystihuje vražedné tempo, v němž George R. R. Martin pokračuje ve svém vyprávění. Královská vybíjená pokračuje, a i když rod Starků nadále drží sever, nad Robbem se stahují mračna, a také jeho sourozence čeká nejedna těžká zkouška. Tyrion stále obtížněji manévruje mezi intrikami vlastní sestry, která větří příležitost rodu Lannisterů na ovládnutí Západozemí. Zdivočelí se odhodlají překročit Zeď a Jon Sníh učiní závažná rozhodnutí. A Daenerys? Krom krmení rostoucích draků musí posbírat armádu, jež jí pomůže znovu dobýt její dědictví – všech Sedm království. Epické vyprávění s desítkami jednajících postav se díky seriálu HBO stalo nejúspěšnější fantasy ságou od dob Pána prstenů. Na celém světě má miliony nadšených fanoušků, kteří netrpělivě čekají na každé pokračování. Píseň ledu a ohně vychází v novém překladu a úpravě. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Třetí díl cyklu Píseň ledu a ohně zastihuje přeživší hrdiny v překotných událostech. Název knihy Bouře mečů doslova a do písmene vystihuje vražedné tempo, v němž George R. R. Martin pokračuje ve svém vyprávění. Královská vybíjená pokračuje, a i když rod Starků nadále drží sever, nad Robbem se stahují mračna, a také jeho sourozence čeká nejedna těžká zkouška. Tyrion stále obtížněji manévruje mezi intrikami vlastní sestry, která větří příležitost rodu Lannisterů na ovládnutí Západozemí. Zdivočelí se odhodlají překročit Zeď a Jon Sníh učiní závažná rozhodnutí. A Daenerys? Krom krmení rostoucích draků musí posbírat armádu, jež jí pomůže znovu dobýt její dědictví – všech Sedm království. Epické vyprávění s desítkami jednajících postav se díky seriálu HBO stalo nejúspěšnější fantasy ságou od dob Pána prstenů. Na celém světě má miliony nadšených fanoušků, kteří netrpělivě čekají na každé pokračování. Píseň ledu a ohně vychází v novém překladu a úpravě. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Třetí díl cyklu Píseň ledu a ohně zastihuje přeživší hrdiny v překotných událostech. Název knihy Bouře mečů doslova a do písmene vystihuje vražedné tempo, v němž George R. R. Martin pokračuje ve svém vyprávění. Královská vybíjená pokračuje, a i když rod Starků nadále drží sever, nad Robbem se stahují mračna, a také jeho sourozence čeká nejedna těžká zkouška. Tyrion stále obtížněji manévruje mezi intrikami vlastní sestry, která větří příležitost rodu Lannisterů na ovládnutí Západozemí. Zdivočelí se odhodlají překročit Zeď a Jon Sníh učiní závažná rozhodnutí. A Daenerys? Krom krmení rostoucích draků musí posbírat armádu, jež jí pomůže znovu dobýt její dědictví – všech Sedm království. Epické vyprávění s desítkami jednajících postav se díky seriálu HBO stalo nejúspěšnější fantasy ságou od dob Pána prstenů. Na celém světě má miliony nadšených fanoušků, kteří netrpělivě čekají na každé pokračování. Píseň ledu a ohně vychází v novém překladu a úpravě. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Třetí díl cyklu Píseň ledu a ohně zastihuje přeživší hrdiny v překotných událostech. Název knihy Bouře mečů doslova a do písmene vystihuje vražedné tempo, v němž George R. R. Martin pokračuje ve svém vyprávění. Královská vybíjená pokračuje, a i když rod Starků nadále drží sever, nad Robbem se stahují mračna, a také jeho sourozence čeká nejedna těžká zkouška. Tyrion stále obtížněji manévruje mezi intrikami vlastní sestry, která větří příležitost rodu Lannisterů na ovládnutí Západozemí. Zdivočelí se odhodlají překročit Zeď a Jon Sníh učiní závažná rozhodnutí. A Daenerys? Krom krmení rostoucích draků musí posbírat armádu, jež jí pomůže znovu dobýt její dědictví – všech Sedm království. Epické vyprávění s desítkami jednajících postav se díky seriálu HBO stalo nejúspěšnější fantasy ságou od dob Pána prstenů. Na celém světě má miliony nadšených fanoušků, kteří netrpělivě čekají na každé pokračování. Píseň ledu a ohně vychází v novém překladu a úpravě. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Král i jeho místokrál jsou mrtví. Západozemí čelí největší krizi od rebelie proti šílenému králi. Roberta Baratheona rozpáral kanec, Eddard Stark se stal obětí intrik, které se snažil sám rozplést. Království je bez silného panovníka a svou šanci větří velcí i malí hráči. Robb Stark je korunován králem Severu, na jihu o trůn usilují bratři krále Roberta. Druhý díl dnes již legendárního cyklu Píseň ledu a ohně se odehrává v ještě zběsilejším tempu než Hra o trůny. George R. R. Martin bez uzardění ničí ve své knize celé armády, o jednotlivcích nemluvě. Nečekané zvraty, krutá politika, závist i pomsta jsou kořením, kterým autor rozhodně nešetřil. Střet králů může propuknout naplno. Vychází v novém překladu. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

In this profound ecological fable, a mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams, one of the few survivors, returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence.Eventually he returns to San Francisco and encounters a female survivor who becomes his wife. Around them and their children a small community develops, living like their pioneer ancestors, but rebuilding civilization is beyond their resources, and gradually they return to a simpler way of life.A poignant novel about finding a new normal after the upheaval of a global crisis. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

A brilliant novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx, author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

A poignant reflection on alienation and belonging, told through the lives of five remarkable people who struggled against nationalism and intolerance in one of Europe’s most stunning cities.What does it mean to belong somewhere? For many of Prague’s inhabitants, belonging has been linked to the nation, embodied in the capital city. Grandiose medieval buildings and monuments to national heroes boast of a glorious, shared history. Past governments, democratic and Communist, layered the city with architecture that melded politics and nationhood. Not all inhabitants, however, felt included in these efforts to nurture national belonging. Socialists, dissidents, Jews, Germans, and Vietnamese―all have been subject to hatred and political persecution in the city they called home.Chad Bryant tells the stories of five marginalized individuals who, over the last two centuries, forged their own notions of belonging in one of Europe’s great cities. An aspiring guidebook writer, a German-speaking newspaperman, a Bolshevik carpenter, an actress of mixed heritage who came of age during the Communist terror, and a Czech-speaking Vietnamese blogger: none of them is famous, but their lives are revealing. They speak to tensions between exclusionary nationalism and on-the-ground diversity. In their struggles against alienation and dislocation, they forged alternative communities in cafes, workplaces, and online. While strolling park paths, joining political marches, or writing about their lives, these outsiders came to embody a city that, on its surface, was built for others.A powerful and creative meditation on place and nation, the individual and community, Prague envisions how cohesion and difference might coexist as it acknowledges a need common to all. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Západozemí ochromila válka. Ze silného a sebevědomého království zůstaly jen trosky a z mocných rodů jsou nyní pouhé frakce, které bojují o přežití. Železný trůn sice stále láká další a další kandidáty, ale síla na jeho získání jim schází. Podobná situace musí nutně vylákat z děr mrchožrouty, kteří se budou snažit hodovat na zbytcích a urvat také něco pro sebe. Rodí se nové svazky, aliance, objevují se noví hrdinové i padouši. Víc než o trůn jde ale v novém uspořádání o přežití, což není snadný úkol ani pro šlechtice, natož pro obyčejný lid. Epické vyprávění s desítkami jednajících postav se díky seriálu HBO stalo nejúspěšnější fantasy ságou od dob Pána prstenů. Na celém světě má miliony nadšených fanoušků, kteří netrpělivě čekají na každé pokračování. Píseň ledu a ohně vychází v novém překladu a úpravě. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Zima se blíží. Dnes již klasická slova, která nejlépe vystihují epickou ságu George R. R. Martina Píseň ledu a ohně. Království Západozemí zažívají dlouhé léto, po němž musí následovat krutá zima. Ale ještě před ní a předtím, než se vrátí Jiní, se rozehrává hra o trůny, kterých je daleko méně než uchazečů. Snad jediný, kdo o Železný trůn nestojí, je lord Eddard Stark, strážce severu. Proto se právě on musí stát hybatelem událostí, které všechno změní. Epické vyprávění s desítkami postav se díky seriálu HBO stalo nejúspěšnější fantasy ságou od dob Pána prstenů. Na celém světě má miliony nadšených fanoušků, kteří netrpělivě čekají na každé pokračování. Hra o trůny vychází česky v novém překladu a úpravě. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Sedm království se zmítá v agónii intrik a zrady. Také proto se pozornost vypravěče upírá jiným směrem – na východ. Za mořem povstává z popela a prachu mocná vládkyně – Daenerys z rodu Targaryenů, matka draků, kteří stále rostou a sílí. Daenerys se stává majákem, ke kterému míří i Tyrion Lannister. Ke slovu se dostává také pouštní království Dorne, na šachovnici se objevují nové figury, aby zaplnily místo těch dávno padlých. Na Zdi, kde se situace zhoršuje doslova každým okamžikem, se stává velitelem John Sníh. Na vrata buší Zdivočelí, kterým jsou v patách Jiní, ani všichni bratři ve zbrani nejsou z volby nadšeni. Zima je prakticky tady a velké finále před branami. Na celém světě má miliony nadšených fanoušků, kteří netrpělivě čekají na každé pokračování. Píseň ledu a ohně vychází v novém překladu a úpravě. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Západozemí ochromila válka. Ze silného a sebevědomého království zůstaly jen trosky a z mocných rodů jsou nyní pouhé frakce, které bojují o přežití. Železný trůn sice stále láká další a další kandidáty, ale síla na jeho získání jim schází. Podobná situace musí nutně vylákat z děr mrchožrouty, kteří se budou snažit hodovat na zbytcích a urvat také něco pro sebe. Rodí se nové svazky, aliance, objevují se noví hrdinové i padouši. Víc než o trůn jde ale v novém uspořádání o přežití, což není snadný úkol ani pro šlechtice, natož pro obyčejný lid. Epické vyprávění s desítkami jednajících postav se díky seriálu HBO stalo nejúspěšnější fantasy ságou od dob Pána prstenů. Na celém světě má miliony nadšených fanoušků, kteří netrpělivě čekají na každé pokračování. Píseň ledu a ohně vychází v novém překladu a úpravě. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Discover the comic that inspired the Netflix Original zombie series Kingdom!Years of war and famine and have plunged Joseon into chaos. The young Prince Yi Moon, having lost all his bodyguards to an assassination attempt, has no choice but to turn to the mountain bandit Jae-ha for help. But as the unlikely pair race to find safety in a world gone mad, it becomes horrifyingly clear that humans aren't the only thing they must fear!In a bonus story, a secluded island becomes a private battlefield as the notorious Japanese criminal Juu and the infamous Korean felon Han face off against each other. But they aren't the only ones on the island... (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last. (knihydobrovsky.cz)